Rik's Blog

It's been quite a few months since the last post...

Why?

Blog spam...

I would log in every week or so meaning to post but end up spending about 30mins cleaning out spamming comments off the previous entries. And by the time I finished, any motivation I had to create a new post was gone. Comment spam on blogs is such a demotivator.

And before you ask.. I do have anti-spam enabled, installed and running on the software. However a lot gets through. IMHO the main culprit was the inclusion of a URL entry on the comment form. So how to remove it.. I've checked every setting possible in b2evo to no avail. Everytime I deleted the spam comments I did a google search on how to remove, found nothing and then stopped.

That was until a few weeks ago. Someone else asked on the b2evo forums and it was finally answered. Yes, I could have asked myself sometime ago, but again - the demotivating factor.. I really wasn't motivated to continue blogging, and thus why investigate too hard. But now, armed with the tips here http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=21622 I've hopefully put in place something which will stop spammers just popping on stupid comments with links to their sites - fingers crossed this reduced the amount of crap in my inbox, and thus allow me to post more.

So, I'm back. I promise to get at least 1 post in this side of xmas, and try and get back to doing more regular updates. I've so much I'd like to post about...

Until then

Rik.